The Elder One by Fadeus

Format: Commander

Commander: Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Rakdos group slug and punisher strategy commanded by Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls. The primary game plan revolves around deploying low-mana passive damage sources—such as Razorkin Needlehead, Roiling Vortex, and Kederekt Parasite—that deal damage during each opponent's turn. Once Valgavoth enters the battlefield, these triggers draw three additional cards per turn cycle and rapidly grow the commander into a lethal airborne threat. The deck layers heavy punitive enchantments like Manabarbs and creatures like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse with damage amplifiers such as Solphim, Mayhem Dominus and Twinflame Tyrant, turning every opposing draw, land tap, and spell cast into life-threatening damage. It also features a compact two-card infinite combo between Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank to instantly mill and drain the entire table. Efficient Rakdos removal, board wipes like Toxic Deluge, and protection tools like Deflecting Swat ensure the pilot controls the board while the table burns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher